Pink Sheets Are Taking
Obscure Shares to Web

One of the cobweb corners of the U.S. stock-trading world is finally getting wired: The Pink Sheets, of all things, are going online.

With roots back to the early 1900s, the Pink Sheets have for decades been the home of the market's most obscure and infrequently traded stocks. The printed listings of thousands of stocks, many of them too small to get a listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the exchanges, got their name because of the...